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This is the text of the slides used in the presentation on 15 November during the presentation by Kate Hughes formerly of Olympic Co-ordination Authority. Her provision of the slides through PPK is acknowledged. Several photos are missing because of server space limitations and download time constraints. If smaller versions can be added they will.

1. Kate Hughes: Econeco P/L 
• Former Director of Enhanced Remediation
Strategy: OCA
• Independent technical reference specialist
• Campaigner and advocate;industrial ecology
Role on CLG 
• Content: preparation and delivery of 
technical information 
• Process: adversarial or inquisitorial

2. CONTENT
• Technical information delivery
• Pollution in context
• The importance of the baseline
Assist discussion on
• Pollutants in the environment; 
ie: airshed issues
• Standards of remediation
• Catchment quality issues

3. Photo of Sydney Air Shed

4. Photo of rat being tested

5. Photo of Chemplex

6. PROCESS ISSUES
• How society manages issues
• CLG Terms of Reference

CLG Process Issues include:
• Standards development; the players,
the constraints,the odds
• Information releases/right to know
• The COMMON GROUND approach

7. CONTENT:THE REGIONAL CONTEXT
• Local catchment quality; point and
non-point source pollution

• Sydney Basin catchment quality

• Spectacle Island Declaration

8. Photo of cars on road 

9. Photo of Castleragh Regional Disposal Depot sign

10. CONTENT: AIR SHED ISSUES
• Linacre; 1970s study of Sydney
Basin air shed
• Monitoring: particulates and volatiles

• EPA air shed studies; information 
release

• National Environment Protection 
Measure: air quality guidelines

11. CONTENT: DIOXINS
Changing Standards
• 1991: internal USA EPA review
• Point and non-point sources/background
levels
• Contribution from increase traffic
generation
• Data release from publicly funded studies

National Dioxin Program 
• ANZECC data gathering exercise

12. PROCESS: 
ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Inter-generational equity
• refers to an equitable sharing of natural
resources and human-created capital
between present and future generations

• why clean up? Pollution migration is
inevitable

13. The precautionary principal
• do not allow incompleteness of 
scientific research delay protection
of the environment

• the quality of risk assessments,
data integrity, public health outcomes

14. PROCESS: COMMON GROUND
• Identify areas of agreement and non-agreement
• tease out issues 
• take a share of responsibility to deliver information
• understand the tasks of the remediator, the regulator & auditor
• develop trust
• resist confusion

15. Photo of hole for State Sports Centre

16. BACKGROUND READING
• Conservationists Perspectives on Hazardous Waste. Late 1980’s
•Chemical Risks and the Unborn: A Parents Guide. 1991
• From Liability to Asset: Directors
Report Homebush Bay Remediation
1989-2000. 
J. Pym for Olympic
Co-ordination Authority, June 2001

17. BACKGROUND READING -cont.
• Other Ecology Programs Reports;
hazardous waste destruction
technologies, hazardous chemicals
fact sheets, etc..
• Green Games Watch 2000: 
Critique of the Management of 
Contaminated Sites for the Sydney Olympics

18. GGW2000 REPORT
May 1996

To Green Games Watch 2000

Critique of the Management of
Contaminated Sites for the Sydney
Olympics

Kate Hughes, Right To Know Publications
[nb available at XXX]

19. Recommendations to Olympic Coordination Authority included: 
? Include the use of standardised bioassays
? support best practice remediation
? initiate pilot bioremediation projects
? Improve consultation on Union Carbide site and Homebush Bay
? Ensure the integrity of fishing ban signs
located in Bay

20. Included Information on Associated Sites 
• Union Carbide (Rhodes - UCAL)

• Allied Feeds

• Homebush Bay (The Bay Itself)

21. Included Information on Associated Sites
• land use history
• investigations
• Regulatory actions
• Remediation activities
• Validation

22. Included Information on Homebush Bay
(The Bay Itself)
• History of degradation
• Studies of contamination of the bay
• Regulatory and remediation activities
• Homebush Bay Corporation Master Plan:
enter from the bay
• Homebush Bay sediments,fish studies, etc. 

23. Included information on Adequacy of
Standards/Guidelines for
• Investigation and remediation activities
• Monitoring
• Validation 
• Community Consultation and Participation
• National Environment Protection Measure